2.3.4 Take Action: send your audience to an S3-destination
51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform also has the ability to share audiences to Email Marketing Destinations such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, Oracle Responsys and 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign.
You can use FTP or SFTP as part of the dedicated destinations for each of these Email Marketing Destinations, or you can use AWS S3 to exchange lists of customers between 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform and these Email Marketing Destinations.
In this module, you’ll configure such a destination by making use of an AWS S3 bucket.
Create your S3 bucket
Go to and sign in.
After logging in, you’ll be redirected to the AWS Management Console.
In the search bar, search for s3. Click the first search result: S3 - Scalable Storage in the Cloud.
You’ll then see the Amazon S3 homepage. Click Create Bucket.
In the Create Bucket screen, use the name aepmodulertcdp--aepUserLdap--
Leave all the other default settings as they are. Scroll down and click Create bucket.
You’ll then see your bucket being created and will be redirected to the Amazon S3 homepage.
Set permissions to access your S3 bucket
The next step is to setup access to your S3 bucket.
To do that, go to .
Access to AWS resources is controlled by Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM).
You’ll now see this page.
In the left menu, click Users. You’ll then see the Users screen. Click Create user.
Next, configure your user:
- User Name: use
s3_--aepUserLdap--_rtcdp
Click Next.
You’ll then see this permissions screen. Click Attach policies directly.
Enter the search term s3 to see all related S3 policies. Select the policy AmazonS3FullAccess. Scroll down and click Next.
Review your configuration. Click Create User.
You’ll then see this. Click View User.
Click Security credentials and then click Create access key.
Select Application running outside AWS. Scroll down and click Next.
Click Create access key
You’ll then see this. Click Show to see your Secret access key:
Your Secret access key is now being shown.
- Access key ID: …
- Secret access key: …
Click Done.
You’ve now successfully created an AWS S3 bucket and you’ve created a user with permissions to access this bucket.
Configure Destination in 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform
Go to . After logging in, you’ll land on the homepage of 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform.
Before you continue, you need to select a sandbox. The sandbox to select is named --aepSandboxName--
. After selecting the appropriate sandbox, you’ll see the screen change and now you’re in your dedicated sandbox.
In the left menu, go to Destinations, then go to Catalog. You’ll then see the Destinations Catalog.
Click Cloud Storage, then click the Set up button (or on Activate Audiences, depending on your environment) on the Amazon S3 card.
Select Access Key as Account Type. Please use the S3 credentials that were given to you in the previous step:
Click Connect to destination.
You’ll then see a visual confirmation that this destination is now connected.
You have to provide S3 bucket details so that 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform can connect to the S3 bucket.
As a naming convention, please use the following:
AWS - S3 - --aepUserLdap--
AWS - S3 - --aepUserLdap--
aepmodulertcdp--aepUserLdap--
Select Audiences.
For File Type, select CSV and leave the default settings unchanged.
Scroll down. For Compression format, select None. Click Next.
You can now optionally attach a Data Governance Policy to your new destination. Click Next.
In the list of audiences, search for the audience you created in the previous exercise, --aepUserLdap-- - Interest in Galaxy S24
and select it. Click Next.
You’ll then see this. If you wish, you can edit the schedule and filename by clicking the pencil icon. Click Next.
You can now select profile attributes for the export towards AWS S3. Click Add new field and ensure the field --aepTenantId--.identification.core.ecid
is added and marked as Deduplication Key.
Optionally, you can add as many other profile attributes as required.
Once you’ve added all fields, click Next.
Review your configuration. Click Finish to finish your configuration.
You’ll then be back at the Destination Activation screen and you’ll see your audience added to this destination.
If you’d like to add more audience exports, you can click Activate Audiences to restart the process and add more audiences.
Next Step: 2.3.5 Take Action: send your audience to 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Target